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RECORD NUMBER: — 177-1000!-1006!

RECORD SERIES: = NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32

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_ DATE: — 12/13/1963
PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS :
CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT
CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified
RESTRICTIONS: 1B
CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 10/02/1998

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning. of the Espionage Lows, Titie 18, U.S Secs.
793 and 794, tha transmission or revelation of whi ich in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law

ad CLASSIFICATION <= DISSEMINATION CONTROLS .
SECRET — no ForRIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

(When Filled In) CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

COUNTRY CUBA REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/658 , 469
suBECT ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC bate bist, 13 DECEMBER 1963
MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS-
SINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY PRECEDENCE ROUTINE: ‘
DATE OF REFERENCES IN 4
INFO. 9 DECEMBER 1963 (9809
PLACE &
DATE ACO. 9 DECEMBER 1963

APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO.

SOURCE A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT WHO IS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER AND HAS DEMON-— |
STRATED MATURITY, DISCERNMENT, AND RELIABILITY IN HIS PAST
REPORTING,

‘1, ABOUT. 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT . —BUNDY-SMITH
JOHN F, KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO
RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLAC ING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT

STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENS | ON
“BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND ING

‘THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOST ILE
ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS, THE™ DIPLOMATIC .

MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE
EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND-DAY WATCH OF MISSION

PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING

_ CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS.
SEC R E T NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

FORM 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. ; - ; . (15-20)

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iP GLASSTFICATION DISSEMINATION. CONTROLS - Te
. ‘NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM “ABROAD/ .
s E C R E T CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE. ONL DosDB-3/658, 4 469.

 SOCUMENTS ¢ ON THE PREMISES, " ~ AND TO Be ‘ON ‘QUARD AGAINST HOSTILE

-PROVOCATIONS, oo oe
2, ONE CHIEF OF. MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING | HIS USUAL
PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE. PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A

LONG~STAND ING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO
CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST

BY CABLE, HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL .

6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHOR ITY TO. QUIT HIS PosT.

3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER. THERE HAD BEEN NO- INDICATION FROM
; HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS TO BE CONS IDERED REVOKED.

u, FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT.

END OF MESSAGE

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“NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM. ABROAD/_ _
CONTROLLED 1 DISSEM/ BACE <GROUND USE ONLY .

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